Apple is building a spaceship. Nvidia will work inside alien polygons. Amazon has its orbs. Soon, Google might have an crazy new headquarters of its own: A series of giant, transparent canopied buildings filled with open spaces for Googlers to congregate. »2/27/15 2:00pm Friday 2:00pm

It has never been easier to get updates on the weather. If you have a smartphone, a few taps will pull up forecasts quicker than you can say "colder than a witch's tit" three times fast. Technology! But there's a much older, low-tech option for figuring out whether to bust out the umbrella, and it's still on display… »1/07/15 9:01am 1/07/15 9:01am

How hard can it be to blow up a building? My childhood experience with knocking over waist-high towers of cardboard blocks leads me to say "not hard," but this botched job by a demolition team in Sevastopol suggests otherwise. I mean, come on guys. »12/26/14 12:00pm 12/26/14 12:00pm

It's a little weird to say this but I've mostly ignored London as a city to visit. Even though it's been years since I've last been and even though I enjoyed my time there, I never think about it when I get bitten by the travel bug. And I don't have a legitimate reason why not! Maybe I should go again. »12/12/14 2:13am 12/12/14 2:13am

Iconic buildings such as the Flatiron Building and the Empire State Building are revered for their historical and cultural significance. However, few people are aware of the equally important structures scattered around the world—structures that have survived time, nature, and the wrecking ball.»12/09/14 9:00am 12/09/14 9:00am

Is only going up in the elevator getting you down? Not for much longer: ThyssenKrupp, the German steel and engineering company, has announced that it's building the next generation of elevators that will use magnetic levitation to travel up, down and side-to-side at speed in the buildings of the future.»11/28/14 8:00am 11/28/14 8:00am

Seeing a photo of this model was one of those rare times when I double take a Lego build to make sure that it isn't actually just a picture of the real thing. Jim Garrett has built a massive 8 foot model of the Guardian Building in Detroit and it is truly impressive. »11/21/14 3:37pm 11/21/14 3:37pm

Each year Lego puts out an exclusive modular building and they are always pretty special. In January of 2015, Detective's Office (10246) hits the shelves. Pricing is set at $159.99 for this 2,262 piece kit that measures over 10" high and is packed full of awesome play and gorgeous design. »11/21/14 10:11am 11/21/14 10:11am

The supertall boom in New York City is happening. Although we've seen a few different visualizations of how this might look, here's a series of brand-new images that puts the changing skyline in perspective, with two dozen proposed or under-construction supertalls that will irrevocably change the New York City skyline… »11/17/14 2:13pm 11/17/14 2:13pm

University of Oregon researchers Jessica Green and G Z 'Charlie' Brown call it the Pickle Box. This former walk-in storage unit for pickles, remodelled into an enclosed climate chamber, is helping scientists understand how people shed their own 'microbial cloud' in a built environment. »11/06/14 8:15am 11/06/14 8:15am

When Nicephore Niepce created the first ever photograph of the world in 1826, he chose to point his camera at a building. Architecture has been an iconic subject of photography from the very beginning, and Phaidon's new book, Shooting Space, surveys how artists new and established are looking at man-made structures. »11/04/14 4:54pm 11/04/14 4:54pm

There are two new sets joining the Architecture line for 2015: A cute reproduction of the massive Lincoln Memorial in Washington, and the famous Flatiron building in New York. We got photos of both.»10/09/14 4:27pm 10/09/14 4:27pm

On the southwest corner of Central Park West and 106th Street in New York City, there's an enormous castle. It takes up the whole east end of the block, with its red brick cylindrical turrets topped with gleaming silver cones. The stained glass windows and intricate stonework make the building look like something…»9/19/14 5:30pm 9/19/14 5:30pm

Imagine a building that expands to provide a more airy space in the warmth but contracts to reduce heating bills when it gets cold. Well, that's almost what this prototype, called, Translated Geometries, is designed to do. »9/10/14 5:15am 9/10/14 5:15am